sarakingdom Posted October 2 Author Report Share Posted October 2 1st October, 2024 Dear Inspector Nightingale, Oh dear oh dear. It must be dire. You're being sarcastic at me. I shall get out my "walking bravely to the guillotine" outfit. Sincerely, Sara Kingdom Trainee at Large, Society of the Wise 2 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 2 Author Report Share Posted October 2 Scientia potestas est Society of the Wise • Est. 1775 The Folly Russell Square London, WC1B 7ZF 1st October, 2024 Dear Sara, Just so long as it involves a proper tie. Yours, Thomas Nightingale Detective Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police Acting President, Society of the Wise 2 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 2 Author Report Share Posted October 2 Today at lunchtime, I made crackers, spicy ranch chips, and pumpkin-shaped ginger snaps. (I had a bag of almond flour and two cookie cutters, and I went to town.) It took forrrrrever. But now I have crackers for a lunch cheese board, and cookies and coffee for dessert. (Oh, look, a seasonal cheese board.) 1 2 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 3 Author Report Share Posted October 3 Date: 2/10/24 All is solved by walking Total min exercise 10 Walk 30-60 min The strong anvil 5 min Hindu pushup Y 5 min Hindu squat 5 min bridge P 1.5 Clothes maketh the gender-neutral man Jacket and tie P A nice close shave N 0.5 Dawn is friend to the muses Kept 8-10 schedule N Kept 10-12 schedule N Kept 12-2 schedule Y Kept 2-4 schedule Y Kept 4-6 schedule P 2.5 Rest is the best medicine 6-8 hours of sleep N In bed by midnight N AM writing exercise N AM meditation N PM writing exercise N PM meditation Interoception meditation Y 2 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 3 Author Report Share Posted October 3 Let's grab coffee. I need some company. How is your day? What are you watching? What are you reading? Does anyone want to split a cinnamon roll? I, for one, have learned that I both correctly estimated and wildly underestimated the quantity and quality of queer jazz wizards in the "queer jazz wizards do Harlem" book. I feel similarly about Nightingale, and I'm surprised he wasn't more worrying to the Folly as a young man. He's such an unpredictable mix of frightfully-nice-chap and unexploded bomb. (Which I guess is why they keep lobbing him over various international borders.) Look, can we just get some cinnamon rolls for the table? 3 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
Everstorm Posted October 3 Report Share Posted October 3 45 minutes ago, sarakingdom said: Does anyone want to split a cinnamon roll? 46 minutes ago, sarakingdom said: What are you reading? Currently reading The Mortal Blade. The writing could be better, but the plot is enough to hold my interest for now. I don't know why, but it's like fingernails on a chalkboard every time I read the word "quieten". It's apparently a word, but feels like it shouldn't be. 1 Quote Life before Death Strength before Weakness Journey before Destination Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 4 Author Report Share Posted October 4 9 hours ago, Everstorm said: it's like fingernails on a chalkboard every time I read the word "quieten". It's apparently a word, but feels like it shouldn't be. I have this reaction to the verb form "to gift", except I'll never be convinced it's an actual word. The verb is "to give", the noun is gift. The gift is the thing that has been given, the rift is the thing that has been riven, and the drift is the thing that has been driven. (Like sand or snow; the gift, the rift, and the drift are abstract nouns standing in for a specific item that has been acted on in a specific way.) That's basic conjugation of verbs taking the form of give, rive, and drive. That is how English works. "She gifted that clock to her mom" is as bad as "She rifted that paper in two". It does not grammar that way. (There is "to drift", but it's the passive verb that applies to what the subject of the action does when it's acted on, not the object, because it's an implicit adjectival form. You don't say "the wind drifted the snow", because it's not the verb the object can do, it's just the state of the subject. The snow that has been driven has drifted, so if we're going to verb the noun gift, the clock that has been given has gifted. "The clock gifted to her mom" as a standalone sentence is silliness, but it's at least grammatically correct silliness, and that is how wrong "She gifted the clock to her mom" sounds to me.) The dictionary disagrees with me, but screw 'em, they're just the dictionary. If "it means we don't have to say more words to clarify" was any reason for words becoming official, we'd have to do a significant efficiency overhaul on the English language. The dictionary and I have a rift of opinion about this verbal drift, and I do not gift a fuck what they think. (Usually those are free of charge, too, so you can see how the added clarity fails us here.) 'Quieten' looks like it's the British form, which puts it on the list of things like 'orientate' that frequently drive Americans up the wall, and I suspect it's not just because of differences between US and UK English, but also partly because of negative stereotypes associated with the Appalachian dialect, which I believe is the primary place those forms survived here. (Big influx of very geographically isolated Irish and Scottish immigrants; you can hear it in the music, too.) It's not just that those forms sound wrong next to the way we're trained grammatically, they also sound like the dialect that's been stigmatized in American media with the worst stereotypes of poverty and "rural backwardness", so they sound wrong with extra knee jerk quantities of sounding wrong. ("Orientate". Gaaaah. It's on my transatlantic translation list, along with chips and fanny - the list sometimes doubles as a wish list for a drunken weekend when I'm a young man with basic tastes - but it's not quite a seamless translation yet.) 3 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 4 Author Report Share Posted October 4 Scientia potestas est Society of the Wise • Est. 1775 The Folly Russell Square London, WC1B 7ZF 3rd October, 2024 Dear Sara, I believe you have misunderstood a key part of your tasks. Walking solves everything. Is something wrong? Take a walk. You don't know what to do next? Take a walk. You're looking for some answer? Take a walk. Is it too dark, wet, or impractical to walk? Take a walk inside. Are you too pressed for time? Take a shorter walk. Are we clear now? (If not, I suggest you take a walk.) Yours, Thomas Nightingale Detective Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police Acting President, Society of the Wise 3 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
Snarkyfishguts Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 I too, am irritated by the use of the word “gifted.” my personal pet peeve is when people say they are “itching their scratches.” You may feel itchy or scratchy. Your scratches may be itching. You may be itching for a scratch. You may have an itch or a scratch, but the motion of raking your mails across your skin is not“itching”. it is scratching. now I feel itchy. pass the cinnamon rolls edit: did you walk? 2 Quote Link to comment
TimovieMan Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 3 hours ago, Snarkyfishguts said: my personal pet peeve is when people say they are “itching their scratches.” You may feel itchy or scratchy. Your scratches may be itching. You may be itching for a scratch. You may have an itch or a scratch, but the motion of raking your mails across your skin is not“itching”. it is scratching. now I feel itchy. 1 2 Quote Active challenges: Enforce it until it becomes habit | Walk to Mordor - (spreadsheet) | DailyDare | Weight Loss PVP 10/12 lbs in 10/12 weeks - (spreadsheet) 2023-24 threads: Challenge VIII | IX | X | XI | XII | XIII | XIV | XV | XVI | XVII | XVIII | XIX | XX | XXI | XXII 2018-19 & 2021 threads: Battle log | Challenge I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 4 Author Report Share Posted October 4 4 hours ago, Snarkyfishguts said: my personal pet peeve is when people say they are “itching their scratches.” They don't, do they? As a thing, and not just a sort of spoonerism? Oh dear. My sympathies. 4 hours ago, Snarkyfishguts said: pass the cinnamon rolls 4 hours ago, Snarkyfishguts said: edit: did you walk? What I did, sadly, was go to bed. Even more sadly, not in a particularly timely way. I'm assured that can be solved with more walking. 2 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 4 Author Report Share Posted October 4 4 hours ago, TimovieMan said: My burn is very itchy. This is apparently to be expected. My skin is reweaving itself. But it itches. 1 1 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 5 Author Report Share Posted October 5 1 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
Snarkyfishguts Posted October 5 Report Share Posted October 5 20 hours ago, sarakingdom said: My burn is very itchy. This is apparently to be expected. My skin is reweaving itself. But it itches. The itching is horrible. Also, I see what you did here and it was really nice of you to word it so. I hope you heal quickly! 7 hours ago, sarakingdom said: this is very useful! It seems like walking for you has become strength training for me. Simple but yet…heavy. Quote Link to comment
Snarkyfishguts Posted October 5 Report Share Posted October 5 22 hours ago, sarakingdom said: What I did, sadly, was go to bed. Even more sadly, not in a particularly timely way. I'm assured that can be solved with more walking. Sleep is important though. There is small comfort that you were not sleep-walking. Quote Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 5 Author Report Share Posted October 5 2 hours ago, Snarkyfishguts said: The itching is horrible. Also, I see what you did here and it was really nice of you to word it so. I hope you heal quickly! That... that is the way it is worded. That is the only way to word it. I'm so confused. 2 hours ago, Snarkyfishguts said: this is very useful! It seems like walking for you has become strength training for me. Simple but yet…heavy. I would like strength training to be that for me, too, but I can't really ignore the data and sheer convenience of walking. 2 hours ago, Snarkyfishguts said: Sleep is important though. Ugh, I know. I need so much more of it. 3 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted October 5 Author Report Share Posted October 5 I'm in a bit of a mood. I'm petty and bitter about everything, including myself, even if no one knows it. (This is, like, the world's most exhausting masking effort, guys.) I am the worst. I'm so tired of me. I'm also tired of everyone else, except for wonderful people, who shouldn't speak (in case I decide they're not wonderful) and to whom I shouldn't speak (in case they realize I'm not). I'm therefore holding today's autumnal coziness coffeeshop meeting in the dark Victorian Gothic witch cafe with lots of rain and plenty of people we don't have to talk to who are minding their own business, providing us with hot drinks, and not judging us for being the problem or making us deal with masking or fixing shit. Radical self-acceptance of being the worst is the theme of the day. Yeah, I'm the worst, so what? Not my problem. Not your problem. It changes nothing. We're going to get a goddamn coffee and sit in a goddamn aesthetic coffeeshop and feel some goddamn coziness and be the goddamn worst and not make a goddamn problem out of it. (In the interests of being social, I'd like to extend this invitation particularly to other people who might appreciate a short period of letting themselves be awful or the problem in a dark gothic witch coffeeshop, like @Rhovaniel, @Sovalis, and, guessing from how long since she's been seen in these parts, @Scaly Freak . Villains unite.) And I might write a Masquerades of Spring review. 4 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
Everstorm Posted October 5 Report Share Posted October 5 2 Quote Life before Death Strength before Weakness Journey before Destination Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted Sunday at 06:58 PM Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 06:58 PM The Crone Energy Kaffeeklatsch is still open. Anyone who's feeling bad about feeling bad, welcome, please drink some coffee in a nonjudgmental space, and chill here until you're more okay with not being okay at the moment. We're having a small forum epidemic of it this week. Yes, that's today's vibe, I think. That is my autumnal radical self-acceptance of being crappy vibe. Please post your vibe for the day, even if it is none of those things. Let's have some shiny gifs in here. 3 1 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted Sunday at 07:08 PM Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 07:08 PM (Oh God, I think my mental health is going to take a hard hit today. Please post vibes.) 1 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted Sunday at 07:19 PM Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 07:19 PM 8 minutes ago, sarakingdom said: (Oh God, I think my mental health is going to take a hard hit today. Please post vibes.) I have been reminded that problems are solved by walking. This is now on the "next three things" list. 1 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
Everstorm Posted Sunday at 07:25 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 07:25 PM I am having difficulty transliterating my vibe into gif. Probably because I am too tired to vibe. It's the weekend and I have nowhere to be, so naturally I woke up at 5am. 1 Quote Life before Death Strength before Weakness Journey before Destination Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted Sunday at 07:33 PM Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 07:33 PM 7 minutes ago, Everstorm said: I am having difficulty transliterating my vibe into gif. Probably because I am too tired to vibe. It's the weekend and I have nowhere to be, so naturally I woke up at 5am. I hear you. My sleep has not been great. Not terrible, but not great. 1 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
Everstorm Posted Sunday at 07:46 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 07:46 PM Maybe we just need to indulge in apple season Should be good for a nap, right? 1 Quote Life before Death Strength before Weakness Journey before Destination Link to comment
Jean Posted Sunday at 07:52 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 07:52 PM Hot chocolate really makes it ok to not be ok, which is pretty much how I'm feeling right now. Also cats. When I'm pouting, there's nothing anyone can do to make me change that. I am because I am and don't care what the world around me is trying to do. 1 Quote Legally bound to hug people in need. Living life as a Druid is about walking with the beasts. It's about being scared, looking your fears in the eyes and going on anyway. Dread doesn't go away, you just learn to know it. It's still a beast, it still has fangs, but you walk among it. Link to comment
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